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11/21/2017 An ancient hero of cosmology: Sergei Shandarin - Trinity variant - Science (https://www.facebook.com/trvscience/) (https://twitter.com/trvscience) (https://vk.com/trvscience) (http://trv-science.ru/feed/) (mailto:[email protected]) (/) поиск по сайт OK HOME (HTTPS://TRV-SCIENCE.RU) » HISTORY (HTTPS://TRV-SCIENCE.RU/CATEGORY/HISTORY/) » ANTIQUE HERO OF COSMOLOGY: SERGEI SHANDARIN BOOKSHELF ANTHE ANCIENT ODYSSEUS HERO OF COSMOLOGY:OF COSMOLOGY: SERGEI SERGEI SHANDARIN SHANDARIN 11/07/2017 № 241 c.8-9 Olga Orlova Pages of History (https://trv-science.ru/category/history/) 4 comments (https://trv-science.ru/2017/11/07/olga-orlova-sergei-shandarin/#comments) 7259 views, 444 - today Print this article (https://trv-science.ru/2017/11/07/olga-orlova-sergei-shandarin/print/) (https://trv-science.ru/2017/11/07/olga-orlova-sergei-shandarin/print/) Sixth floor, room 6070 in the Malott Hall building on the grounds of Kansas University in Lawrence, 20 miles from Kansas City. Here the professor of the faculty of physics Sergey Shandarin accepts students for 27 years. This happens very rarely: get the first job abroad and never change the address. If you use the old Soviet concepts, you can say that in the new American life, Shandarin has only one entry in his work book. Only there are no such books from the professors of the University of Kansas. But there are student forums where they write that Professor Shandarin is too strict, does not like to chew on the material, that he is hampered by his Russian accent, which has not disappeared over the years, but they like it when he tells about the experience of life in the USSR. It seems to them funny, and sometimes (http://trv- incomprehensible ... science.ru/uploads/218- 0035.jpg) Indeed, how can we pass on to the modern young American the experience Olga Orlova of a Soviet child who grew up in a family-type hostel on the outskirts of Moscow, in the passage of Straw Hut, the son of a painter and a worker of the factory of teaching aids collecting herbarium, which first fell into one of the most famous schools in the capital, the best physical institute of the country and, finally, in the theoretical group to one of the most outstanding physicists of his time? (http://trv-science.ru/uploads/241-0022.jpg)How to tell them about poverty, total control of party organs and state security services and about the fastest social and intellectual lifts for a talented young scientist in the USSR? Is that metaphors. Sergei Fyodorovich Shandarin himself says that his life is reminiscent of the adventures of the hero of ancient mythology, who periodically finds himself in a battle between the gods, and who in critical situations come to the aid of "magical assistants" (a magical helper - a term introduced by V. Ya. Propp in his work "Morphology fairy tale. "- O.O. ). https://trv-science.ru/2017/11/07/olga-orlova-sergei-shandarin/ 1/11 11/21/2017 An ancient hero of cosmology: Sergei Shandarin - Trinity variant - Science The first such "assistant" was a school friend Andrei Illarionov (a future researcher at the IKI and the Astrophysical Center of the Lebedev Physics Institute), who invited him to an interview with him in the famous "Second School". About the dramatic events unfolded in the "Second School" in 1971, when a large number of excellent teachers were for ideological reasons suspended from teaching, many memories were written and even a film was shot. Her graduates became famous scientists, businessmen, artists. And they all remember the "Second School" as the best and the only one. The students of the ninth grade "Z" Shandarin and Illarionov were lucky to find her flourishing. "In the tenth grade, we with Sergei somehow recoiled from mathematics," recalls Illarionov, "because we went to Moscow State University to study physics. There arose the feeling that physics is wider and more diverse than solving mathematical puzzles without understanding their nature. And then we together with the whole team from our school decided to enter PhysTech. " A little later, Shandarin and Illarionov began to attend the Shklovskii, Zeldovich and Ginzburg seminars at the GAISH. Seeing the brilliant academician Zeldovich there, the students decided to get to him at the basic chair. But Ya. B. Zel'dovich was then working at the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IPM), and he did not have his own basic chair at PhysTech. And the head of the theoretical department of the FIAN Academician Ginzburg also headed the Department of Problems of Physics and Astrophysics at MIPT. And Shandarin and Illarionov came to pass the Ginzburg exam. Ginzburg asked what they want to do and who. Both answered that they wanted to be in Zeldovich's group at the Institute of Applied Mathematics. And they did not pass the exam after that. But after Zeldovich's intervention, they were admitted to the Department of Problems of Physics and Astrophysics. As Shandarin himself jokes, Zeldovich always played in his destiny the role of God. Otherwise how to explain that he went to the Rector of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology to ask for two positions in Phytech's graduate school for two graduates, so that they would write their dissertations at the Institute of Applied Mathematics? And when the fate of the students was solved, and they became participants in Zel'dovich's group, the understanding of what real physics is is now. The composition of this group will eventually become stellar in a literal sense - their names will be recognized by the entire astrophysical world. In addition to Shandarin, Gennady Bisnovaty-Kogan, Andrei Doroshkevich, Andrei Illarionov, Anatoly Klypin, Igor Novikov, Alexander Polnarev, Alexei Starobinsky, Rashid Syunyaev, Nikolai Shakura entered there ... "Shandarin had a direct, happy scientific road," observes Alexei Starobinsky. This is confirmed by Shandarin himself: "My scientific work at the Institute of Applied Mathematics began with Zeldovich's article, which gave rise to the theory of the formation of large-scale structures of the universe, the so-called " pancake theory " , which I have been doing all my life. Zeldovich set me the task: " You must prove to the whole world that this is the correct theory https://trv-science.ru/2017/11/07/olga-orlova-sergei-shandarin/ 2/11 11/21/2017 An ancient hero of cosmology: Sergei Shandarin - Trinity variant - Science . " An important development of this theory was in the early 1980s, with new observational data from American astronomers, on the basis of which Zeldovich, Shandarin and the Estonian astronomer Jaan Einasto published an article in Nature . The fact is that it was much easier for Estonia to travel abroad than from Moscow, and Einasto, having traveled to a foreign (http://trv-science.ru/uploads/241-0024.jpg) conference, Fig. from the article. S. Shandarin and N. Ramachandra. Large-scale structure of the distribution of galaxies and received matter flows from the results of numerical simulation. The square's square is hundreds of millions of light years. Blue permission indicates the fibers that the substance flows through ( arxiv.org/pdf/1412.7768.pdf (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.7768.pdf) ) from his American colleagues to use the catalog data from approximately 600 galaxies and distances to them. Zeldovich and Shandarin proposed a statistically percolational method for analyzing these data, with the help of which it became clear that these galaxies form networks. This is mentioned by Chernin in his essay on Yana Einasto: "Jaan Einasto was the first among astronomers to pay attention to the voids as a basic element of a large-scale device of the universe. Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich noted the important role of superclusters and voids in the physical process of the formation of cosmic structures of the largest scale. Zeldovich, YaE and Sergei Fedorovich Shandarin (Yakov Borisovich's associate) published an article in Nature in 1982 entitled "Giant Vaults in the Universe", which caused an unusually large number of responses. But this was only the first step towards the main goal of the study, the achievement of which required another 15 years of hard work. As a result of a careful analysis of the observational material, numerous discussions (sometimes very sharp) with colleagues in different https://trv-science.ru/2017/11/07/olga-orlova-sergei-shandarin/ 3/11 11/21/2017 An ancient hero of cosmology: Sergei Shandarin - Trinity variant - Science countries, where groups of energetic cosmologists were actively working (cosmology had by then become almost a mass profession)" The frequency scale of 120 Mpc in the three-dimensional distribution of superclusters of galaxies " . " The first joint article by Shandarin and Zeldovich was devoted to the wooges. In the Russian-speaking tradition, it is customary to call the voices "giant black areas". These formations are mysterious both from a physical and mathematical point of view. Their dimensions exceed the average distance between galaxies by dozens of times, reaching hundreds of megaparsecs. It was clear that their education was associated with some special reason. This reason was easily found in the cosmological model popular in the early 1980s, suggesting that a dark matter consists of a neutrino with a mass of about 30 electron volts. In this model, known as the "hot dark matter model", there are practically no initial perturbations at scales less than a few tens of megaparsecs. This immediately explains the absence of galaxies in the voids. The "pancake theory" described very well the large-scale structure in the neutrino universe, including the formation of voids with the right sizes. However, by the end of the 1980s it became clear that the mass of neutrinos was much smaller than necessary, and the neutrino model of the universe was rejected.